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Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22
A Silver Dollar Saloon.

N. Y. Mail and Express: This was
al important day on the East Side.
Assemblyman Charles Smith, of the
Eighth District, opened his new
saloon, the "Silver Dollar" The bril-
liantly decorated saloon shone from cell
ing to floor with bright silver dollars.
Every stone of the white marble floor has
two 1887 dollars in it. The center stone
has nineteen dollars surrounding a twenty
dollar gold piece, set in a black marble
star. Three large chandeliers hang from
center-piece fac SMILES of silver dollars,
and behind the bar is a magnificent cha
delier, inlaid with 500 silver dollars. The
decanters are made in likeness OF dollars,
and a horseshoe set with the same coin
and presented by a friend, kept company
with a crescent set with silver coins from
a dime up. Intermingled with works of
art on the walls were pictures of the men,
beers OF the Assembly, and "reminiscences
of the proprietor's career of four years
in that body.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22
A FrRternal Visit.

Milo G. Mcmillan, Grand Chancellor of
the Order of Knights of Pythias of the
jurisdiction of Nevada, made a fratornal
visit to Beatifc Lodge No. z, K. of p, on
Wednesday evening last. After meeting
with the Brother Knights in the lodge
room, the Grand Chancellor and members
adjourned to the Jackson House restau-
rant, where a %sumptuous repast was await
ing them. After doing full justice to the in
ner man, speeches and toasts were in order,
and sparkling wine flowed freely. The
Grand Chancellor was highly grati6ed with
the warm reception given him by his
Brother Knights of Beati6c Lodge, No. z.
He left on Thursday morning by private
conveyance for Austin, to visit Toyabe
Lodge al that place.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22
CATTLE
what Cattlemen Of Eastern Nevada
Propose Doing.

AOkpVSS
Said q prominent cattleman to a Reno
Gazette reporter:
"You ask mo what we intend doing in
case the Central Pacific Company contin-
uss to refuse US the privilege Of laying our
cattle of here to feed? There is only one
thing we can do, and that will be to drive
the cattle here and ship them. We can't
pay two rates."
SBut is your plan practicable 7" asked
the reporter.
"Why not? Are we not driving cat
tie from Oregon, a far greater distance !!
To be sure the dri7e causes shrinkage, but
the flesh will soon be regained by good
food and treatment after the destination is
reached"
"How about water along the course be-
tween Elko and RenoT
.sThere is plenty Of it, except for a
stretch of about ~ miles between Love-
lock and Wadsworth. But that can be
remedied without much expense. Let a
half dozen cattlemen stand together, de-
eide on q trail, and wherever necessary
sink wells"
Glow about the expense of driving cat
tie herew
"The expense would be very light. A
drive can be made from, say, Battle
Mountain to Reno, in 20 or Is days. Say
there is a band of l.5O0 brought in. They
would require probably q dozen men to
lock after them. The expense of the trip
would not be over a thousand dollars, and
that is q very liberal allowance"
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22
The Lead Market.

An Eastern exchange has the following:
For several years the II, 200 tons of lead
held by the Richmond Company at the
scene of its operations in Eureka, Nevada,
stood as a menace to the lead market
of the world. Prices were kept down by
m~anipulators and the company kept adding
to the huge pile. Finally the price ad-
vanced to four and a half and -four and
t~hree-quarter cents, and the Richmond
Company disposed of its stock. Judging
from a telegram just received an effort is
being made to handle the market success
fully. A strong combination has been
formed by the lead-smalting firms of the
West with the view of forming a compact
to sustain the American lead market. The
move is said to have been very quietly
pushed to a successful issue, and details are
now being perfected.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22

The Philadelphia News is authority
for the following: "a bartender plain.
lively bewailed the necessity of having to
rub CONCEALED drops of sticky beer off
the bar. But if 1 let them remain said
he, in the tone of one seeking compassion,
they rot the wood They rot the wood,
do they !? freely repeated a beer-bibber.
Then, what in the name of common sense
does beer do to my stomach? Replied the
manipulation of drinks: 1T is beyond me
to tell. Let me show you something
He placed a piece of raw meat on the
counter, and dropped upon it a small
measure of ginger-ale. In five minutes
the meat had parted into little pieces, as
though hacked by a dull knife"
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22
A COmstOck Yarn.

The Virginia Chornicle is responsible for
this. A married lady residing in this city
who has been troubled for many months
with a peculiar s~ensatian in the region of
the stomach, was given an emetic by DR..
Packer last Saturday, and to her astonish.
ment threw up a fish about four and one
half inches i'll length. The fish had evil
IDENTIFY been dead but a few hours. The
lady felt instant relief after Kidding her
stomach of its troublesome tenant. It is
supposed she swallowed the fish when it
was very small while drinking water and
it grew to its present size is her stomach.
h hde of t. bas mas not .n Vet n baen pf dseidsd w WI a1eo-
it belongs to the trout, club or sucker
family.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22

Judge H. l., Elicit, who made the
welcoming address to the President
at Memphis, Tenn, died on the
stand before the ceremonies were
over. The Elicit incident occurred just
as the President closed his remarks in
response to the Judges welcome. Though
the day was not uncomfortably warm,
the spot in the center Of the court
square where the speakers stand had
been erected was an exposed one, and
Judge Elicit, who stood for a time with
his hat off, as the President was speak.
ing, sat down and was soon overcome by
the heat. DR.. Bryant, of the Presi.
Dental party, took direction of affairs
and remained with the unfortunate
gentleman, while the President was
escorted to the Cotton and Merchants
Exchange. Judge Elicit died FIVE min.
utes after the President left the review.
ing stand. This fact was s~tudiously kept
from the President.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22
A Dual ~Christening.

A double christening took place on Sun.
day afternoon last, at the residence of J..
G. Moore, on Mob Hill, the occasion being
the baptizing of the two infant sons of Mr..
and Mrs. Alex. Aguayo. Bishop Scanlar,
of Salt Lake City, performed the bap-
tismal rites. The ceremony over, cake and
wine were served, and the youngsters
health drank in bumpers of champagne,
after which the party there assembled adj
journed to Mrs. Browns restaurant, where
a sumptuous supper was spread, to which
all present did ample justice. The TIM
throughout was very pleasantly passed,
and the event one not soon to be forgotten.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22
To StOckmeu.

The following items of interest to stock
men are clipped from the Northwestern
Live Stock Journal:
All other departments Of production
pool their interests. Why not beef pro.
ducers? 1t is a practical and sensible
thing to do and sooner or later it will be
done. The sooner the better.
S%tockmen, put away all local and per-
sonal jealousies and get into line for the
good of the whole. By helping each other
in a general way you help yourselves in an
individual way. Stand together and keep
your interests close-herded.
Keep it in mind that a lean steer is no
good on the beef markets of the country,
but a desirable piece of property to have
on the range where feed is reasonably
plentiful. Therefore, it will pay best to
keep such at home to ripen for another
war
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22

Inc San Francisco Post says: Colonel
flournoy, for what appeared to him
good and sufficient reasons, procured the
incarceration of Robert F. Morrow pend.
ing trial. Thereat arose some discus.
sion indicating that many people in San
Francisco still consider that before the
law a rich man is the superior of a poor
one We fail to see any cause for com.
ment on the acts of Flournoy and judge
Sullivan. The one, believing the de.
PENDANTS incarceration necessary, did
his simple duty by so stating to the
Judge, who simply did his duty BY max.
ing out the order of commitment which
the attorney demanded. Had judge
Sullivan or any other Judge refused such
an order when asked for proper cause.
we might well despair of the future Of
San Francisco.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22
The Two Trains.

The San Francisco Chronicle says the
Southern Pacific is still in communica-
tion with the Union Pacific and Denver
and Rio Grande officials in reference to
the proposal to run two overland trains
daily between San Francisco and Omaha.
If arrangements and proper connections
can be made, the plan will probably be
adopted. 1t is understood that the Den
Yer and Rio Grande opposes the scheme,
as it could not make two daily trains be-
tween Denver and Ogden pay expenses.
The Union Pacific officials also feel some
misgivings on the financial score, but the
reports of the prospects of success for the
plan are said to be highly favorable for
its adoption. 1t is not likely that any,
thing definite will be done in the matter
for months to come, although the urgent
necessity of two daily trains, SO far as
the Central Pacific is concerned, is be-
coming more and more apparent each week.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22
Reath of DIR. Goodfellow.

H. T. Creswell informs the Austin
Reveille that DIR. M. G. Geodfellow died
at the Paymastsr mine of which he had
charge as General Superintendent, on Sun.
day, October 2, 1887. The mine is stu
ated in San Diego county, CAL, and it has
the reputation of being a valuable mine.
the Great Eastern mine here, and in which
he made considerable money by the dis
covery of a pocket of rich ore. As Mr..
Creswell says: He was a Nevada land
mark, an upright, bold and conscientious
citizen" Many Of the old-timers will re-
greet to hear of his death.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22

The people of Washington are begin.
ming to look with covetous eyes upon the
Presidential Conventions of next year.
1t is proposed to use the northern Liberty
Market for a convention hall. This
building is 224 feet long, ll6 feet wide,
los feet high, and with galleries could
be made to seat 5000 people. William
Dickson thinks that a special building
ought to be and will be built for the pur.
pose. c. S. Moore, of the Columbus
Democratic Club, says that Washington
has just the same advantages as a place
for holding National Conventions that it
has as the seat of the Federal Govern.
ment. 1t belongs to no State and has
no vote in the Presidential election, 1t
has no candidate for the Presidency. 1t
is absolutely neutral and is, therefore,
the proper place to hold the convention.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22
A Dnshing Widows Ball,

Progress says: GA dashing young
Philadelphia widow is to give a ball this
Winter at which no ladies but widows will
be admitted, and no grass widows will be
over 80. Invitations will be sent to New
York, Boston, Baltimore and other cities.
Well may the buds and roses be alarmed.
This is assuredly a bold declaration Of
battle by one of q class experienced in war
fare to be waged. The only remedy will
be for the unmarried bellies to give out in
good time that any young man who at
tends this dance will be shut out from their
society forever. That stand taken, and
evidence that it will be maintained, may
spoil the widows ball.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22
Made Conflicting Keports.

Mr.. Mallory, who is an English mining
expert, has sued the Sterling Company of
Montana for about $1,000, claimed to be
due for examining and reporting on the
company's properties near Helena. The
company resists payment on the ground
that lMr. Mallory made conflicting reports
and, by reason of excessive. use of intoxi-
cants, was incompetent to make a proper
examination or report. 1t is limited that
Mr.. Mallory's report was not very favor.
able and for that reason the promoters of
the company allege the facts stated and in
support OF that allegation resist the ex-
pert's payment for services .-Helena In
dependent.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22
Lesson In

The Bandera (Texas) Bugle says: we
now sport a nice mich COW. How did we
get her? Bought her. Paid $40 for her
the whole amount being 10 cents per day,
saved since March 6, 1886. On that day q
friend of ours insisted on treating US to a
smoke, as it was our birthday, but we re-
fused the kindness, informing him that we
never smoked a cigar, to which he replied
that he averaged from one to three per DAY;
at a cost of 5 to 20 cents each day, ana
that he never missed the small change.
We told him then that from that day, on
we would lay away 10 cents a day as long
as we were able to do so, and see how mucn
it would amount to each year. We have
kept it up to date, and as a consequence
we have a fine Durham COW and calf bougn'
with 400 10.cent pieces.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22
Ingersoll ON Currency.

Colonel Robert G. Ingsrsoll says: I
have been told that during the wal we had
pleanty of money. I never saw it. I
lived years without seeing a dollar. I saw
promises for dollars, but not dollars. And
the greenback, unless you have the green
back of it, is no more a dollar than a bill
of fair is dinner. You cannot make a
paper dollar without taking a dollars
worth of paper. We must have paper
that represents money. 1 want it is
sued by the government, and I want
behind everyone of these dollars either a
gold or silver dollar, so that every gree,l-
back under the flag can lift up its hand
and swear, 81 know that my redeemer
liyeth,"
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22

Says the Louisville Courier.J Journal.
"A patent for a pie safe has Just been
issued to a Texas lady. The American
people will rise up and do honor to this
energetic woman. Whatever is designed
to protect American pie will be received
with enthusiasm wherever the old flag
lies" But if she had only invented
pie exterminator, she would have earned
the alteration Of a dyspeptic generation
of Americans.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22

s. Bill" Briggs. she Gambler IN "
Critical Condition.
San Francisco Report Of tie lSh.

San Francisco Report Of the 1871.
One of the well.known characters OF San
Francisco is lying paralyzed and at the
point of death-"Bill" Briggs, the gam.
bier. The whole city is familiar with his
fine, portly figure; his deginihed carriage;
his old style, but scrupulously boots, of the
pattern that prevailed before English
fashions and athletics came into fashion
here.
Times have changed siuce Briggs used to
visit the early morning market down on
Sansome and Battery streets and scatter
ouarters for the boys to scramble after.
We do not scatter quarters now. That
pleasant but expensive pioneer pastlme
went out of fasion even earlier mar ex'
pansive shirt fronts, high-heeled, narrow
soled boots and black broadc!oth forevery-
day street wear. Some of us who scat
tered quarters and firing dollars wish we
had kept then. Briggs, however, had not
been one of these. The old, free habits and
hearty impulses of the days of gold did not
leave him as the era of the half.aime came
on. A few years ago he bought himself q
little estate up Oh the McCloud river, and
thither in the hunting season he would re-
tire with his little boy, to whom he is
greatly attached. On one accession the boy
fell into the river. One of the denizens OF
the place plunged in and pulled him out.
Briggs threw him a handful Of twenties-
five, six or seven, just what his hand hap
pened to crap. 1t wa very character
istic act. Briggs quiet unassuming man
ner and gentlemanly instincts made him
very popular there, as they have made him
here. He derives from his Cherokee an
cestry a certain gravity of port and retl-
cence that become him we'll and increase
the effect he has upon strangers. They
were very effective at Sissons Springs last
year. Briggs had a cottage there. and a
chorus of "Who is that fine-looking
mani" went from the young lady visitors
at the Springs when he took possession.
He was generally supposed to be a leading
citizen of San Francisco, and his handsome
presence and corteous yet simple demeanor
made the conquest complete, much to the
amusement of some old San Franciscans
there, and to Briggs, too, no doubt, in a quiet,
harmless way. For we believe he cher
ishes certain ideas of chivalry that are
also rather old fashioned in these days.
We are sorry that Briggs must go.
He will be missed. Square" gamblers
are not so numerous that San Francisco
can afford to lose the two or three who
have given her distinction, in that re-
spect, over the other cities of the United
States.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22
Hew We wished They womId Fight.

of a loud alteration last Saturday night.
How pleasant it is when one is trying to
sleep to be kept awake two or three hours
by the loudly expressed grievances of a
couple of drunken belligerents. The air
resounds with the sweet music of maudlin
threats, incoherent explanations, elegantly
garnished with curses. How we did
wish they would fight and then
we should have had the advan-
tage of being revenged for our discom-
fort and at the same time capture an item;
but their great revenge evidently had no
stomach for that kind of business, and
after waking the whole neighborhood, then
stumbled off, their voices dying sweetly
in the distance. We tried to, but we didn't
say God bless them.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22
REASON ~DETMRONED.
Hiatory OF a Crime h BrOughs
John Roach 10 Life imprisonment
and Insanity.

JOH1m KO0cn 10 Lie
and Insanity.
Drs. Lee and Davidson, Of Carson,
have declared John Roach, an inmate OF
the State Prison, insane Carson Iri-
bune.
About twelve years ago John Roach was
working a mine in Ward District, White
Pine county, in partnership with a man
named Matt Gleason. Roach did about
all the work that was done on it, and
Gleason, being a popular fellow and about
half an expert on mining, passed his time
principally in San Francisco trying to
make a big turn on it.
Roach struck a rich spot in the mine
and they had the ore worked. Gleason
attended to the business, and Ilade no re-
turn to Roach. The latter, being a good
miner, figured closely that he should have
had something in the neighborhood of
S. 900 on the ore shipment. Another
shipment was made, and Roach, having
taken precaution to get assays made,
knew pretty nearly what returns should
be made for the ore; but Gleason made
no ruturns. Roach mentioned the matter
to Gleason, but the latter gave him ne salts
faction.
Finally Gleason bonded the mine to San
Francisco parties for q big figure, and he
came up to Ward to see about the property.
Roach got information that Gleason was
about to sell the property, and, as he sup
posed, cheat him out of his half interest.
He spoke to Gleason of the matter and
insisted upon drawing up papers that
would secure him in his intesest in the
mine, about which there was some dispute
between them.
Gleason refused hat-footed, and Roach
told hi n he would not leave the place
alive If he did not secure (Roach) in his
interest in the mine. This only hurried
Gleason away to effect the sale, and he
therefore hitched up his team and started
off.
AS soon as Roach learned Gleason was
gone he got on horseback and started in
pursuit, oyertaking him at Robinson,
where, without any parley whatever, he
pulled his pistol and shot and killed Glea.
son, and then gave himself up to the Of
ficers of the law.
Roach's trial came on speedily, and he
was convicted Of murder in the second de-
gree and sentenced to State Prison for
life.
He is a man of considerable ability and
well.read. He is not at all quarelsome,
but, rather, exceedingly reserved, seldom
speaking unless first addressed. He was
pronounced insane some four years 6 and
committed to the asylum. The change
seemed to have brought him suddenly to
his senses, and was thought he had been
shamming insanity, and was therefore
taken back to his old quarters, but this
second relapse proved that his mind is
Observation-Disclosures.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22

Nevada cattlemen, says the Reno Gazette,
have just cause for complaint. They see
but few, if any, profits ahead, with prime
steers selling for five cents, hay command
ing from So to S12 per ton and the Central
Pacific Railroad Company charging local
rates from points in the State to Reno on
bands rested here, and full rates on the
same from here to destination in Califor-
Mia. Some radical wrong must be righted
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22
Fam IN Carson.

Appeal: Tuesday afternoon a herd Of
goats were being driven along the street,
when the leader, a large billy, became
frightened and rushed into Joe Platt's
store. The herd of about twenty followed.
Being driven out by Platt they filed into
Wells.Fargo, and the clerk grabbed the
shipping book and started in to tag them.
Alarmed at the high rates they started into
the st. Charles Hotel. running under
George Tufy and flooring him. They then
made a break into Haggerty's cobbler shop,
and being driven out with blasphemy and
shoe lasts took refuge in Olcovich's, where
they had a high time of it. The incident
furnished considerable amusement for the
street.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22
Country Dances.

Walla Walla Union: They are festive
up in Wallowa county at the country
dances. When the last cotillion is formed
and the music strikes up, the manager
shouts: "Grab your pistols; allamand
left; gals out doors; gents swing and
shoot!" The last change generally winds
up the business, and the MANNED and killed
are dragged out to make room for the
breakfast table,
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22
Manhattan Con,naux.

A Silver State reporter learns from
Judge Bonnifeld, whorecenty returned from
a trip to Austin, that mining is being car
ried on in the Manhattan, that all debts
due miners and others by that company
are being paid, that the concentrators are
steadily working on ore, and that the ex-
perts sent from the East to examine the
mine are t~olerablY well satisfied with the
outlook, and will recommend that work for
the present be confined to the extraction
and working of ores. Judge Bonnifeld
thinks the present depression will be of
short duration, and that Austin will soon
be lively again.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22
Very TruA.

An old newspaper man in giving his ex-
perience in an exchange says: "My exper.
fence in journalism has been that in nine
cases out of ten people whom a newspaper
man befriends or holsters up are the very
first to give you a keen thrust under the
ribs whenever the opportunity presents it.
self. I can look back over my connection
with various papers, and in most cases the
very critters whom I befriended in many
cold shoulder when ] may have said some
ting not in accordance with their own ex.
aulted ideas"
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-22
Ex-senator Farrell Leaves the state

Senator M. j. Farrell, one of Austin's
most prominent citizens, and who has been
identified for over "a years in the wslfare
of Austin and its people, has left with his
wife for California. His health has been
that a change of climate will benefit him.
Mr.. Farrell entered the Manhattan Office
on the 18th of August, 1886, resigned his
position on the 18th of last August, thus
holding a position of trust in the Manhat-
tan Company for 20 years. >